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Education

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Henry A. Giroux | Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's attempt to close 54 public schools is one more example of a neoliberal system at work.

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Inside the Cooper Union Occupation’s First Hours
Students at Cooper's Union, a free university in NYC, occupied the office of the president to protest the decision to charge tuition.

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Oaxacan Teachers Challenge the Test
The testing regime in Mexico is as entrenched as it is in the United States.

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Temple’s Story: What White Faculty Could Learn from Black Faculty
More than 400 students and community people joined black faculty to protest the racist and anti-Semitic behavior of the dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University. …

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EM’s School Closing Game: Tragedy for Students, Community
The School board is in the dark; parents are angry, the community is under threat and students, many of them special needs, face loss. This is the newest round …

“Love Has No Color”: Georgia High School Students Set to Hold First Integrated Prom
A group of Georgia high school students are making history by challenging the segregation of their high school prom.

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Congress Thinks Plane Passengers Are More Important Than Kids
One can only wish that Congress would go to bat for kids with disabilities in the same way it has for airplanes.

Are Student Loans Becoming a Macroeconomic Issue?
New report brings into question the long term affects of student loans on the future of the economy.

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Heretical Advice from a Happily and Heavily Indebted Ph.D.:Why Poor Students Shouldn’t Fear Student Loans
Recently a student told me how he had been discouraged from freely taking out federal student loans by his professor. When the student said he wasn't particularly concerned about …

Three Members of the Seneca Lake 12 Jailed for a Peaceful Blockade of Inergy’s Salt Cavern Gas Storage Facility and Compressor Station.
Businesswoman Melissa Chipman (case number 13030034.01), Farm Owner Michael Dineen (case number 13030032.01), and Author, Biologist, and Heinz Award Recipient Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D (case number 13030033.01), refused to pay …